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Hello! I was recently looking at the tunes RETURN AGAIN and INVITATION NEW, trying to find the hymn tune for Alice Parker's choral work, “Hark I Hear The Harps Eternal.”
Return Again: https://hymnary.org/page/fetch/UHHS1909/109/high
Invitation New: https://www.ccel.org/ccel/walker/harmony2/files/png75/InvitationNew.png
I found the tunes to be the exact same, the only major differences being the passing tones and ornamentation in the melodic contour of INVITATION NEW. They both share the same meter as well, both poetically and musically. I wouldn't be surprised if the basic tune is a folk tune that was transmitted in the American South and found its way into the Southern Harmony, the Sacred Harp, and other shape-note books.
Should these two tunes be merged since they appear to be the same?
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Tune merger
Thanks. I've merged these; they look the same.
INVITATION NEW and INVITATION page scan swap
Hello again! It appears that a scan that should be connected to INVITATION NEW in the Southern Harmony is connected to INVITATION, which is a different tune. The other two page scans are the Walker melody, yet the INVITATION NEW score is the one presented on the tune's index page.
Invitation
I fixed this.
Hark I Hear -- Invitation New in The Olive Leaf
Well, for what it's worth, I found what I was looking for on accident. This tune and text were paired in Hauser's The Olive Leaf, as Hymn #247.